Re: [platform-dev] SWT-GTK theme support

[Eric Williams <ericwill@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/22/19 9:32 AM, Thomas Singer wrote:
> The question remains how to get that running just for the SWT 
> application without having to change a system theme, or without 
> installing anything to the system or the user.

Well now we get into murkier waters of whether SWT should have a concept 
of theme at all. SWT really should just be emulating the look and feel 
of whatever is running on the user's system...so if SWT ships and 
enforces its own theme that does break that contract.

It's one thing to patch a theme that's already set on the user's system, 
it's another thing to enforce and use a completely different theme all 
together and ignore the user's system theme entirely.

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Eric Williams
Software Engineer - Eclipse/SWT Team
Red Hat